Question follow-through · 3037
Hospitality Industry: Tax Burden
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of the overall tax burden on hospitality businesses.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 28 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of the overall tax burden on hospitality businesses.
21 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises the important contribution that businesses in the hospitality sector make to local communities, the high street and the wider economy across the UK. The potential impacts of changes on this sector are carefully considered as part...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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